By John R Byrne
Cue the “Welcome Back, Kotter” theme music. After a three-month-plus long civil RICO trial in state court, DOM is back at his desk at SDFLA Blog HQ. The verdict? A mistrial. Oof. Then again, any day your corporate client isn’t told by a jury to stroke a check for $1.2 billion has to be a good one. The trial ended with some drama, with one juror accusing another of misconduct in a note apparently crafted with the help of AI (the judge concluded the allegations were not credible). Oh, and jurors dressed up like Dr. Seuss characters from “The Cat and the Hat” on Halloween. Federal judges with Halloween trials take note! Article on the trial is here.
A different deliberative body had no issue delivering its verdict on Saturday. The College Football Playoff Committee released the greatly anticipated 12 team playoff slate. No lack of drama here either. Like a high stakes version of musical chairs, there were three teams (Miami, Notre Dame, or Alabama) fighting for two at-large playoff seats. The CFP went with Miami and Alabama.
Miami was a no brainer. But putting Alabama in over ND was just criminal. Alabama had three losses and looked awful over the past month, losing to Oklahoma, squeaking by a terrible Auburn team, and getting walloped by Georgia on Saturday. What drove the committee’s decision? Basic SEC bias? Fear of the potential wrath of powerful SEC commissioner Greg Sankey? A five-minute Zoom call with universally loved federal judge and diehard Alabama fan James I. Cohn? These are the questions we want answers to!
4 comments:
So conspiracy theories have finally crept into DOMs blog. Roll Tide.
Roll Tide!
Wow. I am a civil lawyer in Florida and I know I am in trouble if DOM's name pops up as defense counsel.
Yeah the dark side got him. No more lonely crusades against the government. Now it’s hours and summary judgment and motions to compel interrogatories. Well as Don Corleone said “ I have nothing against what a man does for a living. It’s just that your business is a little bit dirty.” He was talking about Solazzo and drug dealing but the sentiment applies to civil law. Now I have to go take a hot showier even thinking about explaining to a jury the standard of proof and it not being beyond a reasonable doubt. Preponderance of evidence. SMH. Yucky.
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